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William Porter, right, one of six Baltimore city police officers charged in connection to the death of Freddie Gray, walks into a courthouse with his attorney Joseph Murtha earlier this week.

Jurors at the Officer William Porter trial today heard today from the defendant himself today, but not from the stand.

Friday's court session picked up where Thursday's left off, with the testimony of Detective Syreeta Teel of the Internal Affairs Division and a video of an interview with the officer.

On the stand right now is Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Carol Allan, who took the stand about 20 minutes ago, and is discussing Freddie Gray’s autopsy

The witness on the stand for much of the day was Internal Affairs Detective Syreeta Teel, who was one of two detectives who interviewed Officer William Porter, on video on April 17.

Jurors watched the 55 minutes video, in which Porter calmly answered questions about how he responded on April 12th. It includes a stop at Druid Hill and Dolphin Street in West Baltimore assisting van driver Officer Caesar Goodson. He told detectives at that stop Freddie Gray lying on floor of the van, asked Gray if he need a medic, helped him, up, and then told Goodson Gray needed a medic, but Goodson told him it would be faster if the police van took Gray to the hospital.

Porter said that he continued to follow the van, including when it stopped to pick up a second suspect, Donta Allen.

In the video, Porter told investigators that once the van arrived at the Western District police station, Allen was taken out of the van, then he told investigators he checked on Porter.

At station Porter says he called Gray's name no response. Porter said to Goodson "Oh s**t we need a medic"

The defense took issue with an inconsistency in Detective Reel’s notes, from the first time she called Porter about the Gray arrest. The notes read that she was asking Porter about the stop of the police van that took place at Dolphin and Baker Street, which in fact do not intersect.

Under redirect, Teel admitted that was a mistake, and asked if detective sometimes make mistakes in notes she said “yes.”

At one point Judge Barry Williams grew irritated with Prosecutor Janice Bledsoe who sought to get Teel to talk about interviews with other officers over objections of defense. He kept telling her to move to another line of questioning.

Porter told the investigator that Gray was uncooperative with police and forced into the police van. At no time was he seat-belted.

In cross examination, Teel said she did not feel Porter was lying.

he talks about denying Freddie Gray’s request for medical treatment, because he though Gray was faking his injuries.

The defense will likely argue that under police regulations only the driver of the transport van, Officer Caesar Goodson, who goes on trial next month, was responsible for Gray’s welfare.

That issue came up in cross examination with another witness Thursday. Earlier this week, defense attorney Gary Proctor told the jury that Porter will take the stand in his own defense.

By mid-afternoon, Teel finished her testimony and the prosecution called Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Carol Allan, who performed Gray's autopsy.

Allan said she got word of Gray's death on April 20.

Allan said that she got word from doctors at Shock Trauma that Gray suffered cardiac arrest while in police custody in the van, and the doctors suspected a neck injury.

The jury saw a picture of Gray;'s spinal cord, and doctors said it was not normal.

Prosecutors asked what damaged the spinal cord.

Allan said the spinal cord was "pinched to an extent that it was functionally cut through,"

Allan also described Gray's external injuries.

Late in the day, Allan's autopsy report was admitted as evidence.

She said Gray suffered a spinal cord injury, and the manner of death homicide.

Prosecutors maintained Porter and the other five accused officers denied Gray medical treatment contributed to his death.

Dr. Allan was asked what was the impact of the lack of medical attention on Gray’s condition. She said without medial treatment a patient like Gray could suffocate.

Allan said her autopsy concluded that the cause of Gray's death was neck injury, and the manner of death was homicide.

In the autopsy report she wrote that, "due to the failure of following established safety procedures through acts of omission, the manner of death is best certified as a homicide."

The prosecution presented Allan as an expert witness over the objection of the defense.

Porter's attorneys and the attorneys for the other officers maintain that Allan was pressured by prosecutors into ruling the manner of death as a homicide.

Allan will be questioned by defense attorneys when court resumes at 9 a.m. on Monday.

Porter, a 26-year-old, two- year veteran of the police department, is the first of six officers charged in Gray's death, to go on trial.

Porter is charged with second degree assault, manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and misconduct in office.

This is the third day of prosecution testimony.

Gray's died on April 19, one week after he was arrested and suffered a broken neck and a spinal cord injury in a police van.

Jurors had the chance to inspect the van on Thursday.

Gray's death sparked a week of riots, looting, protests and unrest, along with a state of emergency in Baltimore City.